EDUCATION

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The Open University. Early Modern Society and Culture c1500-1780. 2018 (BA Level 2 module)

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The University of Brighton. Critical Fine Art Practice. 2007. BA (Hons)

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SOLO/COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS & EXHIBITIONS

 

2024 Progress With Light Steps – The Botanical Society. Commissioned co-created project with the public collaborating with Helen Mather, as part of Creating Place II, Turnpike Gallery, Leigh, UK.

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2023 Nature Remembers Everything – The Botanical Society. Creatively engaged project producing  light sculpture with children and young people and their adults and Wigan Youth Zone collaborating with Helen Mather. Commissioned by Things That Go On Things. Wigan Light Night, Mesnes Park, Wigan, UK.

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2023 Dream Into Moss – The Botanical Society. Commissioned co-created project with allotment holders and the public collaborating with Helen Mather and Alison Cooper, Hebden Bridge Arts Open 70 Festival, Hebden Bridge, UK.

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2022 All The Mirth That Is Made. Solo exhibition, Castlefield Gallery New Art Space Wigan. Wigan, UK.

 

2022 A Buffet of Mortification. Solo exhibition, Warrington Museum and Art Gallery, Warrington, UK.

 

2022 The Botanical Society - Look Through The Cracks In The Pavement. Socially engaged project with Helen Mather ‘Art Assembly’ commission by Art Fund, HOME, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester City Gallery, and Whitworth Gallery, Manchester, UK.

 

2022 Mooke, Fylthe and Other Vyle Things. Socially engaged project with Wigan Youth Services and Shonagh Short. ‘The Making of Us’ commission by Turnpike Gallery, Leigh, UK.

 

2021 If Thou Livest In Corrupe Ayre, Change It For A Better. Commissioned performance and mixed media moving sculpture as part of Cap and Dove by Joshua Soafer commissioned by Greater Manchester Arts and performed across Greater Manchester, UK.

 

2020 42. Commissioned pageant vehicle ‘The Mystery Machine’ as part of film produced and directed by AL and AL, in collaboration with choreographer Amy Burdon of WigLe Dance and Anna FC Smith. Shown on ‘United We Stream’ Greater Manchester online channel and viewed by 75,000 people.

 

2020-2021 These Lancashire Women Are Witches In Politics. Joint socially engaged project and exhibition with Helen Mather. Turnpike Gallery, Leigh, UK.

 

2019 Here Comes I, Here’s A Host of Us
All. Performance with Faye Spencer, Whitby Folk Week, Whitby, UK.

 

2019 Reason Is An Impasse, Reason Is Damnation. ACE funded research project and exhibition with Faye Spencer, Cross Street Arts, Wigan, UK and Hanover Project, Preston, UK.

 

2018-2019 Lore and The Living Archive. Touring exhibition and research commission working with folklorist Doc Rowe. Pannett Gallery, Whitby, UK, Touchstones, Rochdale, UK, and Cecil Sharp House, London, UK.

 

2018 Our House of Common Weeds. Curated by Nathalie Boobis. New Bridge Project. Gateshead. UK

 

2018 We Fight For The Future Of Our Nation. Solo exhibition at Wigan STEAM, Library Street, Wigan. UK

2018 The Merry Wagtail jades, The Breeches They Do Carry. Commissioned for Pankhurst In The Park by Alexandra Arts, Manchester, UK.

 

2018 Delight in Masques and Revels, Sometimes Altogether. Movable sculpture and public performance. Commission and residency as part of Imago by Wigan Libraries. Wigan, UK.

 

2017 Our House of Common Weeds. Curated by Nathalie Boobis. RES. London, UK.

 

2017 ULTRA - A State of Mind. Collaborative exhibition with Dustin Lyon at Old Courts Wigan, UK.

 

2016 The Last Bound Sheaf. Solo exhibition. WASPS Hanson Street, Glasgow, UK.

 

2016 Purring: Sport of The People. Solo exhibition. The Whitaker, Rossendale, UK, and Gallery Oldham, Oldham, UK.


 

2015 Hear My Voice And Answer Me. Collaborative installation with Rachael Finney, Curated by Nathalie Boobis. The Swiss Church, London, UK.


 

2014 Purring - Sport of The People. Solo exhibition. Museum of Wigan Life, Wigan, UK.


 

2013 BURPOLOGY, Harry Hill’s TV Burp as Carnival. ACE funded.Turnpike Gallery, Leigh, UK, Pop up gallery, 32 Mesnes Street, Wigan, UK, and Coningsby Gallery, London, UK.

 

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS


 

2024 Seeing Things. Commissioned research and work for group exhibition, curated by Matthew Wood. The Edge, Wigan, UK. ( Also roles as mentor, and assistant curator and workshop facilitator)

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2023 Archives at Play. Commissioned research and work for group exhibition, curated by Thomas Dukes. Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK.

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2023 Air Open 2023. AIR Gallery, Altringham, UK.

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2019 Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival. Warrington

Museum, Warrington, UK

 

2019 Ecstatic Rituals. Commissioned by Absolutely Cultured. Humber Street Gallery, Hull, UK

 

2019 The Fire Within. Commissioned by Wigan Council and Al and Al. The Galleries, Wigan, UK

 

2018 Eminent Domain. Commissioned by Alexandra Arts. ART 511 MAG. Former Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA

 

2018 This Was Hardcore. Curated by sxrvxve. Brooklyn Bazaar, New York, USA

 

2018 Odd Space. Curated by Hewing Wittaire. 44 Ashdown Cresent, Belsize Park, London.

 

2016 APERTURE. Quays Culture, Salford University, MediaCityUK Salford Quays, UK. (selected by M.O.W.L. to represent Wigan)

 

2015 NEO:ArtsPrize 2015. neo:gallery27, Bolton, UK.


 

2015 Wasteland. CueB Gallery, London, UK.


 

2015 Testing Space. Pyramid Gallery, Warrington, UK.


 

2014 ROULADE – Ceremony Issue. Husk Gallery, London UK.


 

2014 BLURRED. Curated by Qila Gill. A Side B Side Gallery, Hackney, London, UK.


 

2014 Art Of Remembering. Rheged Gallery, Penrith, UK. (commissioned work)